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Verizon Wireless and Alcatel-Lucent are showing off multi-player gaming over 4G LTE, which is now live in parts of the United States. The appeal is that the games are being played globally, so users can play with or against each other in real time all over the world. Verizon and Alcatel-Lucent were showing off games…
Texas Instruments is making it a little easier to develop software for Android with what it’s claiming to be the first development platform for Android. TI is trying to make it easier for manufacturers to develop software with the ZigBee and ZigBee RF4CE protocol stacks, which will allow software that enables smartphones to act as…
Texas Instruments, or TI, announced in Barcelona today its new Me-D experiences, which are interactions and gestures that TI boasts as capable of freeing users from the limitations of the physical mobile space. With TI’s new OMAP 4 platform, which we should be seeing in use later this year, the Me-D experience ought to be…
At CES 2011, Motorola and AT&T announced the Atrix 4G, claiming it is the most powerful smartphone yet (at least on AT&T’s network, for now). The dual-core processor smartphone runs Android 2.2 Froyo and can be docked to power a laptop accessory. If you’re looking to grab one of these and want to make sure…
Nokia announced early this morning that it would be partnering with Microsoft to product Windows Phone 7 devices. It wasn’t unexpected, but it certainly was a bit of a surprise since we weren’t expecting this sort of announcement until later. Here we are just hours after that announcement and alleged concept phones are already surfacing.…
Chitika, the popular advertising network, is running an interesting little tracker that shows iPhone usage between AT&T and Verizon. The Verizon iPhone became available to everyone on February 10, and for months, speculation that AT&T would lose a good chunk of its subscribers to Verizon has run rampant. Chitika has decided to keep an eye…
There is so much going on in the world of Nokia this morning with its new Microsoft partnership. In the meantime, however, folks are still apparently enjoying their current handsets running Symbian and having all kinds of fun with them. The Nokia N8, in particular, has been the star of many videos, short films and…
HP announced a new line of devices yesterday during its event, and today it is quickly following up with webOS 3.0 SDK. After seeing the Pre 3 and Veer, I thought, “OK, they seem like decent successors to the Palm Pre and Pixi.” But when I saw the TouchPad, it was a different story. Here…
After all these years of waiting, wanting and wishing, the Verizon iPhone is finally available in stores for the masses. Last week, the CDMA variant of the Apple smartphone went on sale for existing Verizon customers and it quickly sold out. The wireless carrier said that the event set the single day sales record, beating…
Will Carling, a former rugby captain in the UK, lost his iPad on a train and chronicled his journey to finding it with his Twitter account. But when he initially left the Apple tablet on the train, he just chalked it up as a loss until he remembered that he had MobileMe activated on it.…